Fairfax County Public Library: Virtual Reading and Discussion
2022-02-12 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York)
Join Lisa for a virtual reading and discussion of her memoir, My City of Dreams. This free event is hosted by the Sherwood Regional Library of the Fairfax County Public Library System and the Mount Vernon Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Make sure to RSVP if you’re interested in attending!

Stanford University Seminar with Dr. Lisa Gruenberg
2021-12-07 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dr. Lisa Gruenberg will be presenting her second-generation Holocaust memoir, My City of Dreams, at a seminar hosted by Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics and their Medicine and the Muse program. Laurel Braitman, the Director of Writing and Storytelling for Medicine and the Muse and author of the New York Times bestseller, Animal Madness, will moderate. If you’d like to attend this free event, please RSVP here.

The Difficult Patient: Finding the Story Behind the Story Workshop
2021-10-22 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Join authors Dr. Lisa Gruenberg, Dr. Jacob Appel and Dr. Ellen Michaelson for a joint workshop at the 2021 Examined Life Conference. In this 90-minute virtual event, the doctors will use guided exercises utilizing description and dialogue to explore possible backstories for patients who are defined as “difficult”. This interactive workshop is not only beneficial for writers interested in narrative medicine, but is also valuable for clinicians and trainees to help develop empathy, resilience and prevent burnout.
All three doctors are published authors, active clinicians and medical educators with experience teaching writing. Their workshop will be held on October 22, 2021 from 5:30 – 7:00 PM CST. Click here to register for this event and view additional conference programming.

A Beautiful Day: The Mutability of Inherited Holocaust Memory with Dr. Lisa Gruenberg
2021-10-21 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
The Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine present a colloquium on the history of psychiatry and medicine featuring Dr. Lisa Gruenberg, author of the second-generation Holocaust memoir My City of Dreams. This free, virtual webinar is open to students of history and those valuing a historical perspective on their professions.
Dr. Gruenberg’s presentation will include:
1. Learning from a case study from the Shoah, with an admission note by psychiatrist Victor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning.
2. Exploring the history of Am Steinhof, Austria’s premier mental institution, as it moved from the forefront of psychiatric care to becoming a center of active euthanasia under National Socialism.
3. Exploring how historical trauma echoes down through generations.
Contact Emily at hello@lisagruenberg.com for details on how to participate.

Grand Rounds at Massachusetts Mental Health Center
2021-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Lisa will be conducting a virtual grand rounds titled, A Beautiful Day: Catastrophe, Memory & Psychiatry from Vienna, 1942 to today, at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. This FREE event is open to the public. Contact Emily at hello@lisagruenberg.com for details on how to participate.

POSTPONED: An Exploration of the Second-Generation Experience with Lisa Gruenberg & Helen Fremont
2021-06-27 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO THE FALL OF 2021 DUE TO My City of Dreams’ UPCOMING DELUXE PAPERBACK RELEASE. CHECK BACK SOON FOR MORE DETAILS!
Join Ned Temko, London-based American journalist and author, as he interviews Lisa Gruenberg, author of My City of Dreams, and Helen Fremont, author of the memoirs, The Escape Artist and After Long Silence. This free, virtual event, hosted by Chaucer’s Books in Santa Barbara, CA, will explore the mutability of memory and the impact of secrets and the horrors of the Holocaust on families and relationships moving forward into future generations.

A Conversation with Dr. Lisa Gruenberg and Dr. David Urion
2021-05-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Join Lisa for a special virtual conversation with Dr. David Urion about her second-generation Holocaust memoir, My City of Dreams. This event, hosted by the bioethics centers of Harvard Medical School and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, will not only discuss Lisa’s personal journey, but will also examine her memoir’s importance from the point of view of living ethically. If you are interested in attending this free event, you can register here.
My City of Dreams is available for purchase on Amazon in hardcover and Kindle. The newly released audiobook version can be listened to on Audible. It can also be purchased locally in Boston at Harvard Bookstore and Porter Square Books and in Denver at Tattered Cover.

Applewood Retirement Community's Saturday Morning Program
2021-04-10 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York)
Lisa will be presenting her memoir, My City of Dreams, virtually at the Applewood Retirement Community in Amherst, MA for their Saturday Morning Program.

Temple Adas Israel: Yom HaShoah Virtual Reading And Discussion
2021-04-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join Lisa on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) for a virtual reading and discussion of her memoir, My City of Dreams. This event is sponsored by Temple Adas Israel, a historic synagogue in Sag Harbor, NY. Register for this FREE event here.

Regina F. Goldenberg Virtual Author Event
2021-03-22 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join Lisa for a reading and discussion of her memoir, My City of Dreams. This virtual event is sponsored by Temple Concord in Syracuse, NY and is part of the Jewish Book Council’s author reading series. Register HERE for this FREE event.
My City of Dreams is available for purchase on Amazon in hardcover and Kindle. The newly released audiobook version can be listened to on Audible. It can also be purchased locally at Barnes and Noble in Dewitt.

The Vilna Shul: First Night of Chanukah Virtual Reading and Discussion
2020-12-10 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Celebrate the first night of Chanukah with the Vilna Shul and author Dr. Lisa Gruenberg! Join us for a virtual reading and discussion of Gruenberg’s memoir, My City of Dreams, as we begin our celebration of the festival of lights.
Event is FREE.
Registration through event website is required.

Holocaust Museum LA: Virtual Reading and Discussion
2020-11-24 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Holocaust Museum LA and author Dr. Lisa Gruenberg for a virtual reading and discussion of her book, My City of Dreams.
Sign up through event website. Suggested donation $10.

Reading and Discussion, Virtual Event, RiverWoods
2020-11-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | RiverWoods, Exeter, NH, United States
In this virtual event Lisa will read sections of My City of Dreams and have a discussion and respond to questions from the residents of RiverWoods. Details about how to join this virtual event will be posted closer to the event date.

Book Presentation: Jewish Book Council
2020-07-16
This is a closed event for authors and members of the Jewish Book Council.

Open Mic Featuring Jessamyn Hope
2020-07-14 14:00 - 15:30 UTC
Join me for an open mic featuring author Jessamyn Hope!
Sign up here
From the Organizer:
“Join us on July 14th on Zoom for a night of sharing your writing!
The screen is the new stage for this OpecMic and everyone is invited – from Jerusalem to all of Israel and abroad!
Been waiting to be heard while stuck at home? Been waiting to share your writing from lockdown and the day-to-day?
Now is the time: come to hear from featured speaker and amazing writer, Jessamyn Hope, and then show what you’ve got at this OpenMic led by MC Zev Hofman!
To join the Zoom meeting you need to register for the event. (Those who register will receive a link to the Zoom session via email.) The event will also be broadcast live through the Jerusalism Facebook Page. For updates and links to Jessamyn’s work, check out the Facebook Event Page.
A little about the featured speaker:
Jessamyn Hope is an award-winning writer of fiction and memoir. Her debut novel Safekeeping was a Boston Globe recommended read; acclaimed by The Globe and Mail; a New York Public Library Staff Pick; a 2018 National Jewish Book Club pick; winner of the J.I. Segal Award in English Fiction on a Jewish Theme; and a finalist for both Hadassah’s Harold U. Ribalow Prize and the Paterson Fiction Prize. Safekeeping can also be found at number two on BuzzFeed’s “53 Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down.” Her memoir essays and short stories—originally published in Ploughshares, PRISM International, Colorado Review, The Common, The Hopkins Review, J Journal, and elsewhere—have received two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays, The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose, and the forthcoming The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. For more about Jessamyn Hope, check out her website: jessamynhope.com”

Williams College
2020-06-27 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join Lisa and journalist Ned Temko in conversation about My City of Dreams at this alumni event. The event will be hosted online and Williams alumni from ’74 through ’78 are invited to attend.

Never Too Late: Boston Public Library Virtual Event
2020-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116
Join the Boston Public Library for an online talk with Lisa. They are requiring registration because this talk will be happening via Zoom, the meeting details of which will be emailed to registrants. Note that Lisa was originally going to speak at the Central Library on Tuesday, April 21 as part of our Author Talk Series but was unable to do so because of our system-wide closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Register here: https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/5ea07e782b699a45005bfde2

Virtual Event - Yom Hashoah - A Holocaust Observance of Memory and Hope
2020-04-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Congregation B’nai Torah invites the community to join as one congregational community, online, for our annual service and program for Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Monday, April 20, 2020, at 7 pm.
As a special addition to our program, we will be joined live online by local physician and author Lisa Gruenberg. Gruenberg has recently published My City of Dreams, a second-generation Holocaust memoir. On Monday evening she will share with us a short excerpt from her book as part of our Yom Hashoah prayers, music and meditation.
The observance is hosted in partnership with Congregation Beth El and Congregation Or Atid.
How to Join
Please see the weekly CBT email for the Zoom link or contact the office at admin@bnaitorah.com.

Chaucer's Books
2020-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105, United States

The Harvard Coop
2020-03-03 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02238

Jewish Federation of the Berkshires
2020-03-02 10:45 - 11:45 (America/New_York) | Congregation Knesset Israel, 16 Colt Road, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 01201

Brandeis University: Center for German and European Studies
2020-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Brandeis Univeristy, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02453
The event will be held in the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G03

TidePool Bookshop
2020-01-10 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | TidePool Bookshop, 372 Chandler Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01602

Lesley University
2020-01-03 17:00 (America/New_York) | Lesley University Theater, Marran Theater, 34 Mellen Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Kimball Farms Life Care
2019-12-17 16:00 (America/New_York) | Kimball Farms Life Care, 235 Walker Street, Lenox, MA
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Williams College Book Store
2019-11-05 16:00 (America/New_York) | Williams College Book Store, 81 Spring Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 01267

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
2019-10-17 15:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 1, Solna, 171 77, Sweden

Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery
2019-10-05 16:00 (America/New_York) | Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, 69 Maple Street, Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, 03227

Longwood Author Series
2019-09-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Longwood Campus, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
Harvard Longwood Campus, Boston, MA || Countway Floor 5: Minot Room
